Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-02-17
FINE CATTLE.
All About the Celebrated HOlstein.
Friesian St0ek-G0 Out and See
Them.

Friesian Stoek-G0 Out and See
Them.
Ii at all possible, allow me n space
in Your columns through which to
answer many friendly inquiries, and to
make a few statements in regard to
the Holstein-F Iiesian cattle in gener-
al, In times like these. when money
is scarce and high, the demand is
for the very best and the most value
for the money paid and the natural
questions we ask on first seeing these
cattle are, what are they good for,
milk or beef? Are they not too
small for beef? Are they not too
large for milk. Are they not a
very coarse animal? And a number of
other like inquiries. Three or four
years ago l became interested in the
subject of cattle and cattle growing,
and these were the substance of the
the questions l asked, and on their
satisfactory answer became convinced
that the Holstein was the cow for
the farmer, stock raiser, the dairy.
man, the town COW and the general
purpose cow.
While figures and statistics are as
a rule uninterestlng reading, yet it is
by their use we are able to GO for
ward with hope of progress in the
future, and a few facts may be of
interest to your readers:
First, then, as to milk product, a
firm in New York has a cow that has
given 26,000 lbs. of milk in a year, or
at net $3.50 gallons; her daughter as
a four-year-old has a record of 49,
602lhs., her granddaughter IA, 200 lbs.
as a two-year-old; and as to the
quality of the milk, would add that
in my own experience it all averages
higher than 20 per cent. of cream.
But lest any should think these fig
ures very extravaganza, for they are
indeed wonderful, would quote from
a late issue of the -Friesian
Register. the following:
Mr.. B%eauchamp's great COW, Bru-
insma Rika, (5769. H. III. B. drop
ped a bull calf, by Walter Scott 18th,
(342) January Is, which weighed at
birth 113 pounds. This COW has
been wintered ON ordinary rough
feed, running in the stock-felds dur
ing the day and stabbed at night. Her
feed has been ground corn meal. l1-2
quarts mixed with cut hay morning
and night. She weighed before
calving 1925 pounds. She has been
giving for the last two days since
calving, 80 pounds of very yellow
milk each day. From present ap-
pearances this COW will turn out to be
another prodigy.
This winter when on a visit in
Southern Illinois, l saw ON a farm, 5
head of grades,3 years old late in the
spring of 1887, that then (about Dec.
1st) weighed from 1000 to 1000
pounds, and these animals had had
only average care and feed, in fact,
we're not stabbed at all.
On examining the cows they will
be found large with fine head and
neck, but thick and deep at the chest,
broad headquarters, straight on back
and running out to almost an angle
at tail, large udder and teats, and
milk veins well developed.
The bulls at maturity weigh from
1000 to $500 pounds, and both cow
and bull are noted for being very
gentle.
On this account we breed with very
fine horns, that add beauty and style
and grace to all animals without fear,
and smile at the subject of 'DeLorn,
ing believing there was a middle
ground between pedigree and no
pedigree. l have selected animals
for my own herd with as much in
dividual merit as possible, and pedi.
grees of the best. 1 am milking 9
heifer that vas 2 years old the End
day of this month, February, that
dropped her first calf Dec. 8, 1886.
that on very low feed is giving ovel
2 gallons of milk per day. She il
by the famous bull Cyclone 4th
(1651) whose dam Astua End Q057.
took sweepstakes premium at thu
Illinois States Fair in 1882, and who
has a record of Sc lbs. in one day. ]
have several young things by the
same bull, and one that will be milk
ing soon for the first time, out of
COW that was imported by Bradley
of Massachusetts, and from the bul
Donker 4th (257O, who is out o
"Pride of Twisk,' owned by Messrs
j. ". Stillwell & Co., of Troy, Q
She took sweepstakes prize in st
Louis in 1882, in a ring of 21 gran'
cows from all parts of the Unite'
States.
"Pride of Twisk" has a record O
SO of milk in a day and 3 IL of but
ter.
This heifer Hannah Lee Ellwood j
remarkably fine in points of goo
breeding and gives great pronis
for the future. l have a splendi
young bull, "Ephraim H., F. 81. B.
4443, out of Nj. F. Manetta End.
and by the imported bull Argubrigh'
H. Fl. B.,3364. This bull is owned b
by the well known breeders, Boom
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